Word: rearmaments
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...freely admit that [he] is the most articulate Englishman that has ever lived . . . How did it come about that he was so much misunderstood?") and also with his coalminer's pickax: "His ego now fills the whole cosmos." Violently he played the Bevanite line that Britain's rearmament and her U.S. alliance carry her toward war. ". . . Behind the guise and façade of the United Nations, the Americans are waging an ideological war with weapons against the Soviet Union...
...Bevan may often have the streets with him, but inside the Labor Party he runs smack into the powerful antipathy of the conservative Trades Union Congress and Cooperative Union. Right now the trades unions are deeply concerned by Communist attempts to exploit workers' unrest over the sacrifices of rearmament. Last week coal miners in Tonypandy, in Nye Bevan's bailiwick of South Wales, called a mass demonstration against the government and appealed to Bevan to take part. Bevan saw his chance to ingratiate himself with conservatives in his own party. "I refuse," said he, "to partake...
Faure had staked the fate of his cabinet on a series of money bills designed primarily to finance France's $4 billion rearmament program. His plan: to save $200 million by slashing social services, raise an extra $600 million in direct taxation. He asked for 20 votes of confidence in a row, and fell on the second, a proposal to increase taxes...
Dead Albatrosses. This term, Shuman decided to try again for the presidency, and last week the big debate arrived. The question this time: "That this house would welcome the rearmament of Western Germany within the framework of a Western European Federation." Shuman was on the negative, along with Socialist Lord Stansgate and a young Bevanite named Patrick Uber. On the affirmative: Guest Speaker Paul Reynaud of France (see FOREIGN NEWS), and Shuman's presidential opponents Norman St. John-Stevas, former president of the Cambridge Union, and Oleg Kerensky, grandson of Russia's last pre-Bolshevik Prime Minister...
Following World War II, Bowie was an aide to West German High Commissioner John J. McCloy and worked on the Schuman plan. He pointed out that the French government fell recently on the question of finances rather than on German rearmament and organization of a European Army...